$NAMESPACE in TestSuite commands is always =default regardless of kuttl test --namespace option

[gberche-orange]

What happened:

$NAMESPACE in TestSuite commands is always set to "default" regardless of the --namespace option passed to kuttl cli

What you expected to happen:

$NAMESPACE in TestSuite command to be filled with value passed in --namespace option passed to kuttl cli

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

suite.yaml

apiVersion: kuttl.dev/v1beta1
kind: TestSuite
metadata:
  name: name
commands:
  - script: |
     echo namespace=$NAMESPACE

$ kubectl kuttl test --namespace kuttl-test-2023-07-05-16h-26m-18s --config [...]/suite.yaml
[...]
namespace=default

Anything else we need to know?:

Environment:

• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version):
• KUTTL version (use kubectl kuttl version): 0.15.0
• Cloud provider or hardware configuration:
• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release):
• Kernel (e.g. uname -a):
• Install tools:
• Others:

[iblancasa]

Why don't you use the TestStep kind?

[gberche-orange]

thanks @iblancasa

Why don't you use the TestStep kind?

I was trying to preprocess kuttl TestStep yaml files using carvel ytt (https://carvel.dev/ytt/) as a workaround for https://github.com/kudobuilder/kuttl/issues/203

I tried to do it into a TestSuite within a script but hit this bug + the fact that the TestStep files references in TestSuite seem loaded immediately in memory once the TestSuite loads.

As a workaround, I'm now preprocessing kuttl files prior to executing kuttl. This also solves https://github.com/kudobuilder/kuttl/issues/379